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Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp August 11Alex Haley, author of Roots, was born in 1921.
Students explore their own roots by interviewing family members and use their family history to write a fictional account of their roots.

Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp March 15Beware the Ides of March!
Students discuss and categorize superstitions, define a superstition, and compare the similarities and difference between proverbs and superstitions.

Classroom Resources | Grades 4 – 7 | Lesson Plan | Standard LessonBoars and Baseball: Making Connections
In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.

Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp November 1Celebrate National Family Literacy Day!
Parents, grandparents, and other family members are invited to the classroom for a family-school reading day.

Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Online Professional Development | Web SeminarCommunity Mapping
This Web seminar will examine Community Mapping as a practice designed to uncover a rich array of resources in households and communities that hold the potential to enhance literacy learning for children while developing reciprocal relationship with families.

Professional Development | Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy GuideConducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.

Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic OrganizerConnection Web
Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.